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The Jeffco Sheriff’s Office is looking for two people who may have smashed as many as 50 mailboxes off Little Cub Creek Road in Evergreen a little after midnight on Dec. 30.

Lance Schul, a sheriff’s spokesman, said a resident in the 2700 block of Mountain Park Road heard a noise that night. Thinking it was something messing with his animals, he went outside to investigate and saw what he thought were two people smashing mailboxes.

Both were dressed in black, and Schul said the resident couldn’t tell if they were male or female.

A Conifer resident who lost his home in the Lower North Fork Fire says a state-appointed commission’s recently released report on the blaze shows “a lack of any meaningful investigation.”

Tom Scanlan wrote in an e-mail that the commission did not fulfill its duty of investigating the fire’s causes and impacts. Scanlan has served as a spokesman for victims and is one of several researchers who conducted an independent investigation into the events surrounding the deadly fire south of Conifer.

During the county commissioners’ recent vote to approve Jeffco’s 2013 budget, which included a $688,000 cut to three social-services nonprofits, there was a noticeable — and repeat — absence.
The budget was approved on a 2-0 vote, with County Commissioner John Odom not in attendance. Commissioners Don Rosier and Faye Griffin voted in favor.

Trudging onto ice-covered Evergreen Lake, Bob Zavodsky of Mountain Foothills Rotary was carrying a large blue barrel. Closely following on the brisk afternoon were members and staff of the Evergreen Park and Recreation District’s Special Needs Program.

Placing the barrel at the lake last Wednesday, Jan. 2, marked the beginning of the organization's annual Evergreen Ice Melt Contest that benefits area organizations.

A group of Evergreen residents advocating the recall of fire district board members have submitted petitions signed by more than 450 people to the election officer handling the initiative

“We thought that would make a loud enough statement,” said resident Cal Winn, who signed the original recall documents.

Winn and other residents who have been collecting signatures to recall the five Evergreen Fire Protection District board members are opposed to the plan to place a fire training facility with live burn capabilities in Bergen Park.

An Evergreen resident saved her dog from a mountain lion attack by giving the panther a few strong kicks with her foot Friday evening.

Julie Wynn-Birr said that after letting Apollo, her 85-pound chow mix, out on the third-floor deck of her home around dusk, she heard squealing and a low roar. When she looked outside, Wynn-Birr said, the mountain lion was on top of her dog, gripping him by the head.

After kicking the lion on his head and ribs with her foot, the animal ran off, she said.